It is the single best demonstration of the damage cocaine does to people. Before there was “this is your brain on drugs”, there was the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Watch it with your children so that they think “Holy crap, if this is what people come up with on coke, I never want to even try the stuff!”

Ctrl+f: “holiday special” - Phrase not found.

This thread epic fail.

Crewed by transgenic mice!

Just off the top of my head:

1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
4. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
5. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
7. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

Probably a representation of the legend of the burning of the Library of Alexandria, when many ancient works were presumed lost forever.

More images: https://www.qwant.com/?client=ext-firefox-sb&q=library+of+alexandria+burning&t=images&origin=suggest

Yeah, I too remember there was some anger but not the reason for it. Licensing issues, maybe? Anyway, with the kerfuffle, bloat, and Java requirement, it didn’t have enough to keep me from µTorrent.

Also been using qBittorrent for the last few years, on Windows and the last two years on Linux. With search plugins for key sites, so I can avoid the popups that even uBlock Origin can’t prevent.

(Due to an unpatched security vulnerability in the repo version of qB, currently using AppImages of latest versions of both qB and qB-enhanced. Only difference I personally notice is that qB-enhanced follows my system theme, dark.)

You’re welcome :)

re OT question: I remember trying out Azureus a bit back in the day, and with its “legit content distribution” section getting to watch this video:

YouTube - Benny Benassi - Satisfaction

But I didn’t stick with it, mainly used µTorrent and eMule.

So sad this is necessary now.

Or hosted in a way that is itself P2P? Like IPFS or ZeroNet?

Two decades torrenting in Mexico (also periods of eMule and Soulseek), never a problem. No VPN, no seedbox, no Tailscale.

(ISP: Telmex Prodigy Infinitum.)

What about a dumb TV with a Roku Xpress?

https://fmhy.net/

Re bottom left photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc was burned by napalm dropped by the Republic of Vietnam Air Force.

You know what… it is 😉

(Giving me flashbacks to the days of the Slyck forums!)

As first torrents, then cyberlockers, and then streaming came to dominate, the other P2P networks and programs did one of the following:

• Shrunk to a much smaller number of users but still linger on.
• Software stopped being developed, domain name lost
• Purposely closed down to avoid legal consequences
• Pivoted to something else (like legal downloads or streaming e.g. Napster, Audio Galaxy, or a different P2P network, e.g. Limewire went from Gnutella to BitTorrent to… web file transfer?)

Every now and then, I try a Kad/ed2k client but soon return to torrents. E.g. a few months ago I tried out aMule on Linux… and got a LowID. 23 years after I first started using it, I still can’t dodge LowID 😂 It does have content, though.

Compared to previous times I revisited Kad/ed2k, some sites/services with ed2k links have now finally disappeared: MoTV (Ministry of Television), TV Underground, ShareTheFiles. I think VeryCD is still going though.

Shareaza is still a thing (at least, a fork of it is), still claiming to be the one P2P app to rule all the networks. One of only three clients left (according to Wikipedia) that still access the Gnutella network.

Just to see what’s up, I installed Gtk-Gnutella (last updated March 2024). I can find a few things in searches, but still waiting for them to begin to download. UPDATE: One just started downloading, although the speed is max 50 Kib/s, ETA is at least a few hours.

I might give a Soulseek client a try, as a hard drive full of music I got from Soulseek in 00s recently died (yes, it lasted 15 years!), and Soulseek seems to be the music P2P that never dies (and has a Linux client).

PS I don’t think Retroshare is a “new iteration”; it’s been going since 2006!

IPFS? Or some other distributed data storage system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

For a nanosecond, I somehow understood the headline as “Audio Galaxy Still Accessible”. Which really would be impressive.

I only just realized that my search plugin in qBittorrent isn’t giving me any results from TGx.